House-elf Bias

I have sometimes wondered if technology could be used to make some house-elves more visible. When I buy an apple or some meat in the grocery store they are simply opaque to me. Their production is completely invisible. Was it a farmer in my home country who produced it, driving around in his comfortable tractor, or was it a hard pressed third world farmer whose children go uneducated despite his best efforts? Knowing this through some technological means, even to an imperfect degree, would probably affect my choices.

Nice article, but when you say "The world of Harry Potter sets up an incredible framework for explaining people to people" I think you actually mean that it sets up a credible framework.

You see this with young, cocksure male drivers going like assholes down the highway, swerving between lanes and telling themselves they're really awesome. What they don't realize is that they haven't hit anything yet because the other drivers are all getting the hell out of their way.

Thanks for the interesting lens! It made me read the scheduling article (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177262" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8177262</a>) in a new way.